Dr Jessica Cox
Reader in English Literature
Gaskell Building 126
- Email: jessica.cox@brunel.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)1895 266402
- English
- English and Creative Writing
- Arts and Humanities
- College of Arts, Law and Social Sciences
Summary
Jessica obtained her PhD from Swansea University in 2007 and worked as a lecturer at the University of Wales Lampeter before moving to Brunel in 2009. A Reader in English, she has research interests in maternal histories, Victorian popular fiction (especially sensation fiction), the Brontës, first-wave feminism, and neo-Victorianism. She is a fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and currently Division Lead for English and Creative Writing at Brunel.
Academia.edu profile https://brunel.academia.edu/JessicaCox
Newest selected publications
Cox, J. (2025) '"I have suffered something": traumatic childbirth in 19th-century Britain'. Medical Humanities, 51 (4). pp. 464 - 473. ISSN: 1468-215X Open Access Link
Cox, J. (2023) 'Confinement: The Hidden History of Maternal Bodies in Nineteenth-Century Britain'. Cheltenham: The History Press. ISSN 10: 1-80399-404-5 ISSN 13: 978-0-7509-9857-4
Cox, J. (2022) 'Wagner, Tamara S. The Victorian Baby in Print: Infancy, Infant Care, and Nineteenth-Century Popular Culture. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. 320 pp.'. Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies, 18 (1). pp. 1 - 4.Open Access Link
Cox, J. (2021) '“I’ll try violence”: Patterns of Domestic Abuse in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre (1847)'. Women's Writing, 29 (3). pp. 1 - 23. ISSN: 0969-9082 Open Access Link
Cox, J. (2021) 'Midwifery', in Scholl, L. (ed.) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Victorian Women's Writing. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 1 - 4. ISBN 13: 9783030027216.